Sanders: Instead of weapons funding we should pool resources to fight climate change

[Uncle Joe]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the U.S. should stop spending so much money on weapons and should instead divert those funds to fight climate change.

“Maybe, just maybe, instead of spending $1.8 trillion a year globally on weapons of destruction, maybe an American president — i.e. Bernie Sanders — can lead the world and instead of spending money to kill each other, maybe we pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change,” Sanders said Thursday at the December Democratic debate in Los Angeles.

Sanders's Green New Deal climate plan calls for a $16 trillion investment in fighting climate change.

He has introduced a bill that would declare a climate change emergency, something the Vermont senator says would help the U.S. regain leadership on global warming.


https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/475421-sanders-instead-of-weapons-funding-we-should-pool-resources-to

[HerbChestnut]

1. Yep.

Sounds like a great idea to me.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Welcome to D.U. captdemo.

[George II]

4. He can always write a bill and introduce it in the Senate right now.

[HerbChestnut]

6. I was told that introducing bills during a campaign is just a political stunt.

Besides, do you think Trump would sign it?

[George II]

10. Who told you that? On the other hand, what about last year? Or the year before? Or the year before?

I can repeat that 25 more times.

We all know that, in the unlikely event that he won the nomination and more unlikely that he won the election, a president doesn't introduce legislation, and he can't even do it via executive order.

[TexasTowelie]

5. Maybe Bernie can start with defunding the F-35 program?

Oh that's right, Bernie didn't bother to vote against the defense budget. There are words, then there are actions.

[msongs]

11. an F 35 in every garage. nt

[Amimnoch]

7. ROFLMAO.. well.. no shit.

[The Valley Below]

9. .